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Oscar and Anna Maria Niemeyer

Sofa for Hotel SESC, Rio de Janeiro

Office Brasil
Brazil, 1990
imbuia, leather upholstery 27¼ h × 98 w × 29 d in (69 × 249 × 74 cm)
estimate: $12,000–15,000
result: $13,970
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Remnants of paper manufacturer's label to underside.
provenance: Hotel SESC, Rio de Janeiro | Private Collection | Wright, Design, 10 December 2021, Lot 376 | Private Collection
literature: Brazil Modern, Chen, ppg. 268-269 illustrate similar example

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It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What attracts me is the free and sensual curve—the curve that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuous course of its rivers, in the body of the beloved woman.

Oscar Niemeyer

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